Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-01-29

out regard to place Of birth-he proceeded
to specify the seven great attributes which
he holds to be the distinguishing features
of the true American: ~ That civil and
political rights are not grants from supe-
riors TO interiors, but flow out of the order
and constitution of Nature. o. That
moral force, not physical, is to maintain
these rights ~ That their safeguards
are individual culture and responsibility.
AZ That secular education is provided by
the State, and is forever free from sectarian
control. (5) That there is no alliance Of
State and Church; the Government nom
religious, but not irreligious. (6) That
the Sabbath is day of rest from ordinary
care and toll. O. That Christianity, in
lis ethics and charities, is the religion of
this land
Proceeding upon these to fortify his po-
sition, he declared it bold venture for the
fathers to place personal liberty foremost
without regard to birth or education or
civilization, and sublime courage alone in
spired the declaration that civil and po-
litical rights are not grants from Superiors.
II is these that diferentiate us from all
others, that establish the doctrine that we
are born free and equal, and that cur polit-
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from our birth. II was this declaration
that astonished Europe and sent chill
through royal blood, but which oncoming
generations approved, and oncoming cen
turtles will applaud. So it follows that the
naturalized citizen must renounce all al
legianee to princes and other governments,
and reject the assumed superiority of any
human grantor. As the fathers asserted
moral force as the defense of government
by the people, but of citizenship that
makes every member soldier in the
disguise of citizen, comes the moral
sentiment, which in its aggregation is pub
lie opinion, mightier than armies or
navies. Out of the individuality of the
citizen comes the collective man, our
national life "The American citizen is a
republic of one" exclaimed the preacher,
thus originating more forcible expression
for an old and vital truth He is an Amer
lean, no matter whether native or foreign
born, who accepts the segregation of pub
lie education from the teachings of the
church, bold move in political science
by the fathers. Though intelligence is
boundless power, producing as much evil
As good, damning as well as blessing, vet
we must, in loyalty to the organic principle
of the Government, stand true to the new
doctrine in the science of statecraft, since
we can know no class but citizens no obliga-
ton but protection, no duty but the vel
fare of the people. The doctrine of the
segregation of church and State must be
accepted by the foreigner who is
to become typically American, to the re-
lection of all ideas of temporal power here
on the part Of church rulers and pontifis
He is a true American citizen, he insisted,
who maintains the Sabbath day as an
american institution which should be con-
secrated to rest from labor, and devoted to
mental and physical repose. He went so far
in this declaration as to insist it shall not
be day of recreation, to he spent in riot
Gus living and in brawls, but in a manner
in harmony with the institutions of relig-
ion and the dominant sentiment of the
country. The tendency is to transplant
the European Sabbath to America, and
against this he emphatically protested
So far as It's ethics are concerned, he in
sisted that a Christianity not of sect or
creed, but as taught by the four evange-
lists, is essential to be recognized as the
religion of the land; to the end that it
should be embodied in constitutional and
statutory law; to the. end that its teach
ings of the brotherhood of man should be
accepted, and its lessons of fraternity,
equality, justice and mercy be incorpor-
ated in the law of society.
In conclusion, he insisted that the great
movements among the peoples of earth
menace us, and raise the question-in the
face of the present vast immigration, the
fact that Europe can send us 100000 of
immigrants a year for the next hundred
years" Who are those tiat come" He
asserted, in discussing this inquiry, that
most immigrants are by twelve times
more disposed to crime than are those of
native stock, and some statistical data is
given in support of this allegation; thus,
that in 1870, 20 per cent. of the population
of New England was of foreign birth. and
furnished - per cent. of the crime Sta
tistics Of the liquor traffic, he also cited
at length, to fortify the statement that
serious danger comes to US from inebriety
among the foreign population. Thus in
Philadelphia, out of s, 1884 persons engaged
in the liquor traffic, the s;atisticians place
Americans at 40, while all others are for
eisn. OF the S,03i, 1895 are females, and
but one Of these is american. Of the
S,034 in the business, e As had been under
arrest for some crime Another objection
he raised to the existing order is the
possession of large property interests by
alien corporations and individuals. lie
would have neither any foreign language
taught in the public Schools 20 the
exclusion Of or in preference TO the Eng
fish tongue, nor any laws printed 10 for
eign tongue, nor no part of the country by
land possession subject to any church-the
instance of Territory being cited where
a church is the dominant landlord. He
would extinguish mention, and thought if
possible, OF classification Of voters-a senti-
ment, by the way, the REcoRD-USIoN
gave allegiance to long since. There
should be no Irish vote or German vote,
let us add, no Irish-Americans, nor Ger
man-Americans, nor native Americans, but
only two classes recognized in politics or
conto+v- o,,d a.;